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Lee Marmon (Laguna Pueblo), next to his most famous photograph, "White Man's Moccasins". Photography by indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form that began in the late 19th century and has expanded in the 21st century, including digital photography, underwater photography, and a wide range of alternative processes.
Over Canada's history various refugees and economic migrants from the United States would immigrate to Canada for a variety of reasons. Exiled Loyalists from the United States first came, followed by African-American refugees ( fugitive slaves ), economic migrants, and later draft evaders from the Vietnam War.
A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection of Writing and Art by North American Indian Women was the first published collection of Indigenous women's writing in North America, as well as the first anthology edited by an aboriginal woman. [1] [2] The book was edited by Mohawk author and anthologist Beth Brant.
As former president Donald Trump returns to power, more Americans who worry about a future under him may look north.
Lorraine Monk (1922–2020), photographer, helped establish the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Order of Canada for contributions to photography; Geraldine Moodie (1854–1945), pioneering photographer, images include the Innu people around Hudson Bay; Julie Moos (born 1966), art photography; Alexandra Morrison, photographer
While her message did not prove to be overwhelmingly popular, Kellogg did find a constituency among the Iroquois people. After the Society's Columbus meeting in 1911, the New York Tribune hailed Cornelius as a scholar, a social worker, "one of the moving spirits in the new American Indian Association, " and "a woman of rare intellectual gifts ...
Green worked for a number in years in academia, including posts at the University of Arkansas and University of Massachusetts. [4] Between 1976 and 1980 she was Director of the Project on Native Americans in Science for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and between 1980 and 1984 she was Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College, [1] In 1984 Green ...
Warren was the first executive director of the American Indian Women's Service League (AIWSL), and served as the group's leader from 1958 to 1969. [6] [7] AIWSL began when several women worked together to organize meals, clothing, and shelter for Native American newcomers to Seattle, often meeting people in need on the street or at bus stations.